Prospective

3Future liabilitiesE

(1)Where, after the commencement of this section, the Church Commissioners acquire land and, immediately before the acquisition, a liability to repair the chancel of a church had effect as an interest in or over that land, the liability—

(a)ceases on the acquisition to have effect as such, and

(b)takes effect instead as a duty imposed on the Commissioners by this section.

(2)A liability imposed on the Church Commissioners under this section is of the same extent as it was immediately before the acquisition.

(3)Any Land Registry entry in respect of a liability to repair the chancel of a church which, but for this section, would on the acquisition have become a liability of the Church Commissioners having effect as an interest in or over land, ceases to have effect.

(4)The references to the Church Commissioners include a reference to a subsidiary of the Commissioners.